I wrote a year ago about why I felt "queer" was the right word for who I was and how I lived my life. Now I find myself feeling as if I can't continue to identify as "queer" anymore, but what could work better? Read More

Washington state's first marriage equality TV ad dropped last week and it was a heterosexual snoozefest. Now Minnesota has released their first go on the small screen and it's more of the same.Read More

Last Thursday, journalist Rex Wocker asked a very pertinent question: "So if Jerry Brown already has decided that sexual orientation can't be changed, why does he apparently still need lobbying on SB 1172 (and he apparently does)?"Read More

The D.C. office of Human Rights just launched their first Transgender and Gender Identity Respect Campaign this past Thursday. There will be ads featuring members of the transgender community across bus stops all over DC.Read More

A new report by the Human Rights Campaign, Log Cabin Republicans, the Movement Advancement Project, National Stonewall Democrats, and the Victory Fund, serves as a primer on the unfair laws, burdens and stigma still faced by many LGBT Americans.Read More

Our friends Ron Gamboa, Dan Brandhorst, and their young son, David, were on United Airlines Flight 175, the second plane to hit the World Trade Center. The week Bin Laden was killed, I wrote this post...Read More

As we watched speeches at the Democratic Convention that for the first time really embraced the needs and reality of our community, has our fight for equality moved beyond simple matters of sexual freedom?Read More

First Lady Michelle Obama spoke this afternoon at a luncheon co-hosted by the Human Rights Campaign, the Victory Fund, National Stonewall Democrats, and Equality North Carolina to honor out elected officials.Read More